Com-mit'ment, n.

n. 1. The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; particularly the act of committing to prison. They were glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower, whence he was within few days enlarged. Clarendon.

2. A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person, more frequently termed a mittimus.
3. The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill to a select number of persons for consideration and report.
4. A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.
5. The act of pledging or engaging; or the act of exposing or endangering. Hamilton.